A new programme to teach vocabulary at the Get Set for School (Early Childhood and Year 1) level with great activities and step by step instructions.Excellent for special needs/learning disabilities.
Word Time is an innovative vocabulary development program that expands your Get Set for School readiness program or other Pre-K curriculum by helping students to:
Develop strong vocabulary around meaningful subjects
Build print awareness through introduction to written words
Strengthen oral language skills by speaking sentences that tell, describe, ask, and answer
Word Time Resources and Activities
Learn more about Word Time and how a developmental approach to literacy and vocabulary in early childhood education helps children develop language skills alongside important social, emotional and physical skills.
The Word Time kit includes: 336-page Teacher’s Guide for 9- or 12-months of lessons, 295 laminated Word Cards, and Squawker, a friendly parrot puppet who engages your young learners.
We designed this program with you in mind. Word Time is easy to use in your classroom or OT practice and works well with any curriculum. It takes only 10-15 minutes a day to teach a lesson, making integration easy and seamless.
Lessons are flexible and theme based so that you can pick a lesson to reinforce what you are teaching on a given day. The themes in Word Time are meaningful to young learners and help you teach important concepts:
1. Social Behavior 2. School 3. My Body 4. Sky
5. Animals 6. Work 7. Health 8. Earth
9. Celebrations 10. Transportation 11. Construction 12. Play
Word Timealso makes it easy for you to extend lessons with The Book Connection. For each theme, we provide a suggested reading list. Each time you read aloud, you explicitly teach children concepts about print and help them develop important literacy skills.
Word Time is used in Early childhood and New Entrant classrooms and later for children with learning delays/disabilities.
The program is appropriate for whole-class, small group, and one-on-one instruction.
For Teachers
Use Word Timeto support your language arts instruction. The kit, which includes the teacher’s guide, Word Cards, and Squawker parrot, has everything you need to provide theme-based instruction and activities that make lessons fun and memorable.
Squawker the parrot puppet makes every lesson exciting. He helps you teach new words and concepts and encourages all your students to participate in activities.
Instruction takes only 10-15 minutes a day, so that children are always excited to learn.
For Therapists
Use Word Time to support your school-based instruction or private practice.
The kit has all the tools you need to provide targeted, developmentally appropriate instruction in just 10-15 minutes a day.
You can use Word Time to help small groups, individual students, or to run camps and workshops.
